Head-covering and method of making the same



(HoModlJ A. B. WARINGn HEAD GUY/"BRING AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME. No. 296,371 PatentedApr. 8, 1884.

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HEAD-COVERING AND METHOD OF MAKlNG THE SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,37I, dated April 8, 1884.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR B. WARING, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Head-Coverings and Method of Making the Same, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that class of headcovering wherein a fur nap 18 contained on a wool or feltable body of a material inferior to the nap, which is, as it is well known, composed of fur. In the manufacture of hats of this class the nap, as I shall designate the fur film or bat, has been produced by blowing or depositing the fur directly upon a perforated metallic cone in the usual forming-machine, and such nap is then placed over the felt cone or bodya rather expensive and tedious process; and so, also, the nap has been formed by a bowing process and been applied to the hat in pieces. In my experiments to-produce a napped hat of this class in the simplest and most expeditious manner, I have discovered, by first perforating the felt hat-body produced in any usual way and placing it on the usualperforated metallic cone, that the furfor the nap may be blown directly upon the said body, and thereafter the body and nap can be united or incorporated together in the manner now commonly practiced by hat-manufacturers.

My invention consists in the herein described head-covering as an improved article of manufacture, it being composed of a perforated felt body inclosed or covered with a fur nap, and also in the method herein described of manufacturing the same.

Figure 1 represents in perspective a headcovering, shown as a hat, made in accordance with my invention, the nap being removed from one part of the body to show its perforations; and Fig. 2, a section on the dotted line :29 00, Fig. 1.

I In the manufacture of head coverings in accordance with my invention, I take a felt body, c, perforate it, as shown at b, with a sufficient number of holes of proper size to enable the passage of air through it, as the air passes through the perforated metal cone of the usual forming-machine. The perforated felt body which is to receive the nap c is blocked on a form similar in shape to the usual perforated metal cone of the forming machine. It has also been attempted to place animperforatedbody of wool upon a perforated cone, and by exhausting the air from the said cone draw fine fur into the said body; but in such case the for so deposited cannot be made to hold as closely and firmly into, and so as to form a part of, the hat as in the manner hereinafter described. The felt body,having been blocked or shaped to fit the cone, is placed upon the usual perforated cone of same size in the forming-machine, andthenap is deposited directly upon the perforated felt body as the nap is commonlydeposited upon theusual metal perforated cone, the holes in the body permitting the finer fibers to fill therein and form, as it were, anchors for the finer covering. The most desirable way of depositing the fur on thefelt body is by exhausting the air from with in the perforated metal cone upon which the felt body is held,sucl1 exhaustion of the air cre- 'ating a draft through the perforated felt body, and causing the fur being presented to it to be drawn into the perforations of and to be deposited upon the said body between the perforations therein, thus forming a bat or nap of fur that entirely covers all that part of the body which has been perforated, so as to permit the passage of air through it. After a sufficient thickness of napping-fur of bat has been formed upon the felt body, the latter, with the nap upon it,is wrapped or enveloped in a damp cloth and submerged in hot water, which partially sticks the nap to the perforated body, after which the nap is hardened and scalded to the body in the usual way. This very simple process results in the production of a serviceable head-covering in a most expeditious and inexpensive mann er,and the fur of the nap extended more or less through the perforations of the body insures a closer and better incorporation of the nap with the felt body than as heretofore practiced.

The fur-covered felt body will be blocked and finished to form a head-covering or hat in the usual manner.

In the drawings I have not shown the entire fur body a as perforated; but it will be understood thatthe nap will be formed or deposited only upon the perforated parts of the felt body, and so more or less of the body may be covered with a nap of fur.

The shape of the holes I) is immaterial.

I claim 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a head-covering composed of a perforated felt body having a nap deposited upon and incorporated with it,the holes in the body serving to receive the accumulation of fine fibers through the body at different spots, all substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. That step in the art or method of covering a perforated fibrous or felt body with a nap of fur which consistsin depositing thesaid furnap I 5 described.

In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name 20 to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR B. WVARING.

WVitnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, B. J. NoYEs. 

